Stories about Mom and Dad

From a technology perspective, geneology is fascinating. So many indices and records are getting linked in and uploaded; data I couldn’t find a few years ago is now available! I’m going to make a note about the data I have from Mom. Lots of what she told me happened before she was born and was family lore, which was aged for years before she told me. And my memory is not perfect either. From   familysearch.org   (LDS), I find a scan of a record of Edwin’s first marriage in June 1899 to Regine Wasserberger in VIenna.  https://www.familysearch.org/ ark:/61903/1:1:QGJT-W8VW From that doc, I see Edwin’s birthdate is 4/24/1874; his parents are Jakob Bardach and Rosa Hoenigsman. Looks like he was born in Lemberg. Mom had said he was Polish (I assume Galicia) but a Google search of Lemberg shows it’s the German name for Lviv (Ukraine). There was a lot of interchange between Ukrainian and Polish Jewish populations so Polish could have been his language. He certainly spoke German as well, and I

Mom's family name is Famfule (Famfoolie?). The family came to the Vienna area and settled near Mödling (I think); they had a brick making business. Mom thought the family was originally from near Pisek, Czech Republic. At the time, this was all the Austro Hungarian Empire, so they considered themselves Austrian. I don't know how many brothers and sisters Sofia had. I think Aunt Annie was one of her sisters, and I believe she had a brother that visited periodically; there are photos of him in the garden in the house in Mödling. Mom said the brother was a nice "hobo" and implied he did not have a permanent residence. I asked her if the family was afraid of having him near the children, if maybe he was schizophrenic or something; she said he was nice and he was safe, and that all she knew.  Age-wise,  he probably would have fought in WWI; I wonder if he suffered from PTSD? The older girls, Liesel and Trude, would take cookie sheets from the kitchen and ride them down the